Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 23:14:22 -0500 (CDT) From: Rich Murphey <rich@rich.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu> To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu Cc: asami@FreeBSD.org, torstenb@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xpm static library Message-ID: <199610160414.XAA25640@richc.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.95.961016000046.696C-100000@baud.eng.umd.edu> (message from Chuck Robey on Wed, 16 Oct 1996 00:04:31 -0400 (EDT))
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|From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> |> |Just let me jump in here a moment. All that stuff is controlled by |> |FreeBSD.cf, which we really ought to get some chance to tweak, you know. |> |Before it becomes a regular part of a distribution is the right time to |> |consider it. |> | |> |One possibility is to ask that a site.def file be sited in OUR |> |/usr/share/mk directory, so we could get our own meathooks on part of the |> |config. |> |> Yep, FreeBSD.cf would be the ideal place to '#define |> ForceNormalLib YES' specificly for FreeBSD. Would that |> fix it? Rich | |Yes and no. It won't fix it as long as the location of that file is |defined to be inside the XFree86 distribution, where our cvs can't touch |it. Would be kinda nice if either that file or site def (which is |currently in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11config and totally _empty_) were sited |somewhere accessible to our tree. Hmm.. like /etc? That particular location is used for other things like XF86Config, so there's a precedent of sorts. And since it's already used for a similar purpose by other OSes as well there's a chance it would be less surprising to them. |Personally, I would want some chance to mess with the contents of that |file by giving verbal input to XFree86 members, but not have that inside |our tree. I would have the site.def in our tree somewhere, where it being |empty or missing wouldn't kill things. There's no reason you couldn't search /etc first for site.def and /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config last. Would that help? Rich
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